> we just sent them to the local kindergarten That is how I came to learn French; I went to a Paris kindergarten aged 3. Apparently I hated it for 6 months, bu

> we just sent them to the local kindergarten That is how I came to learn French; I went to a Paris kindergarten aged 3. Apparently I hated it for 6 months, but after that I was pretty fluent. When we returned to England, and I went to an English school, I was marked down by the French teacher for using the subjunctive before I had been taught it.